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Saga was born on 15 March, 1978 at Symningborg CastleGeneral nearHospital in Tynam, [[Cryria]]. Her father was Duke Ögge of Tynam. Her mother was Gazny Nurai, the only daughter of Gazny Chīrén, then the Governor of Gazny Khot.

SagaAfter was initiallybeing raised in Gazny Khot, beforeSaga returningreturned to Leidenstad and was enrolled in the Eglistanes Secondary School.. She later declined to apply for a deferral or exemption from Cryria's National Service System and elected to complete the full two years of mandatory service with the Regiment of Coastal Jaegers, apparently out of a desire to not return home to Symningborg where circumstances remained tense. At this time, it had been assumed that her brother, Turlan, was the favored successor to the Duchy. However, an apparent tryst and latersubsequent marriage between Turlan and Alessia Ciresi in [[Charlottesborg]] generated the disapproval of both the Duke and the Duchess and created new rifts within the household.

Saga went on to attend the Leidenstad Military Academy after completing her service period and graduated in 2002.

Saga was commissioned as an officer in the Cryrian Foreign Legion just prior to the beginning of the Volscine Civil War and the Cryrian Millennium Crisis. The outbreak of the [[Charlottesborg Mutiny]] and the storming of the Cryrian consulate there resulted in Turlan's death. This left Saga as the sole viable successor to the Duchy of Tynam, in part due to the difficult of imparting the Egendom's assets to non-immediate family members under Cryrian tax regulations. Saga herself was soon afterwards among the Foreign Legion units deployed to evacuate Cryrian citizens from Charlottesborg International Airport.

According to CDF records indicate that, Saga remained in the Foreign Legion for several years afterwards and was among those deployed during the Ellesborg Emergency as well asand other Cryrian operations during the Millennium Crisis. She latereventually ended her commission in 2010 as the executive officer for the Legion 1st Infantry Battalion.

SagaAs alsothe inheritedsuccessor to the House of Tynam's, Saga also inherited the seat on the ''Första Kammaren'', whichas well as the Tynam Egendom's lobbying power, markedmarking the beginning of her involvement within Cryrian politics. The Duchess was one of the key backers of the Remembrance of Sixty-Four, a political committee whose name referred to the sixty-four Cryrian citizens killed at the Charlottesborg Consulate. The group harshly criticized the failure of the Schaumann Government to evacuate Cryrian civilians prior to Charlottesborg's exit ban alongside the general paralysis displayed during the early days of the crisis. Remembrance was ultimately a contributing factor in both destroying the Green Party's bid to regain power and in removing Schaumann himself as leader of the party.

Other activities at this time related to Tynam's unique position within Cryria as a culturally and linguistically distinct region. The final settlementresolution of the [[Northern Waters Dispute]] in 2002 also allowed forfacilitated a wider rapprochement between Cryria and Älemsi Negdel, and by the 2010s this had led to the start of a gradual political realignment of Tynam asin wellthe 2010s. Without the overhanging threat of conflict with the Negdel, Tynami politicians becamewere more willing to break from their traditional conservative allies and push for various forms of autonomy and cultural recognition within the Kingdom.

Despite initially strong support for the Conservative Party through the Remembrance movement, Saga has moved along with this trend in a limited fashion. The Duchess has been a significantvocal advocate within the Riksdag for reforming legacy Albertine-era restrictions on the usage of languages other than Cryrian in government and in the education system. She is also a notable supporter of continuing to pursue closer relations with Älemsi Negdel, a country with which the Duchess still has close personal ties with due to her upbringing in Gazny Khot, and her familiarfamilial connections to Governor Gazny Zamira.

As with her predecessors, Saga has also acted as a voice for other, more longstanding Tynami issues such as the allocation of additional funding for the Duchy. AmongOne of these wasconcerns long-running controversieshas aroundbeen the Special Labor Visa Program with [[Nystatiszna]], particularly the importation of low-wage Nystatinne workers into the Cryrian fishing industry, who then directly competed with smaller Tynami operations. Tynami politicians including the Duchess were among the main supporters of removing Nystatiszna from the Special Labor Visa Program, and ultimately succeeded in this goal by July 2022. As Tynam has only seven seats in the ''Andra Kammaren'', the Ducal seat in the otherwise heavily ceremonial ''Första Kammaren'' has historically played an important role in raising Tynam's political profile and in ensuring access to various committee assignments.